Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13
TELEGRAPH BREVIFIES.

W. EoIly HSAV a uuCl.
The Bulgarians are about to pro-
claim their independence.
Rain storms have been doing much
damage in Massachusetts,.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will teach
in private school in New York.
Missouri desperadoes killed two dep
uty sheriffs near Phelps City yesterday.
Joseph Smith, Jr., will present his
claims to the presidency of the Mormon
Church.
Rev DR.. Richard S. Storrs. of Brook
lyn, is so i'll that fears OF his death are en-
tertained.
Jack Morley, bartender at Sidney,
Nebraska, shot and fatally wounded Mar
shall Miles.
Miss Jennie Lamar, daughter Of Sec
rotary Lamar, was married at Macon, Geor-
gia, Friday.
Leland Stanford holds $4,000 shares
of Central Pacific stock which he values at
81 900 share.
uAC ICstsoL SiS
wishes to be an American citizen is because
she likes the country.
The Ohio Republicans adopted the
Sherman endorsement without dissenting
voice in the convention.
A. l.. Houk, a druggist, was killed
by the explosion of soda-water generator
at Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A tornado at David City, Nebraska,
last week killed one man and did consid-
cradle damage to property
igadier-General W. NJ. Dunn died
at his summer home in Fairfax county, Vir-
ginia, yesterday, aged 70 years.
A Harvard student is doing duty at
Saratoga as hotel waiter and special
correspondent of a Boston paper.
Whooping cough is kill ng thee hill
dren on the San Carlos Indian reservation
at the rate of eight or ten day.
A special from Leavenworth, Kansas,
says the Citizens Savings Bank has as
signed and the cashier has absconded.
o. H. Rothaoker of the Omaha Re-
publican has been held to appear befor the
Grand Jury on charge of criminal libel.
L. O. Wilson, postal clerk, has been
arrested in Kansas City for robbing the
mails He confessed and told how he did it.
G Titan Jackson and his gang of out
laws are terror,zing the stockgrowers OF
the Wind River country in Wyoming Ter
ritOry.
A committee of 100 of Kansas City's
business men have gone to Washington to
invite President Cleveland to visit their
town this fall.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that commercial travellers
must pay the same railroad rates that other
people are charged.
William O'Brien declares that the
Land bill will bankrupt majority of the
landlords in Ireland, and that it is practi
cally Parnell's bill.
The total number of postmasters re-
ceiving less than $1,000 per annum is 5O,-
5s2. OF that number 4S,00S are paid be-
tween 1900 and $3.50 year.
1t is shown by official returns that
the production of anthracite coal in Penn
sylvania the last fiscal year was nearly
thirty-six millions of tons.
Senator Leland Stanford presented
to the Union Pacific Railway Investigate
Ing Commission written answers to fifty
eight questions propounded to him.
Charles Cooley and Daniel Bullion,
railroad graders, were killed near Chey-
enne. Wyoming, by deputy sheriff who
mistook them for escaped prisoners.
Charles Trumbull, convicted of muir
der for tie killing of William Milly, at
Lusk, Wyoming, has been sentenced to be
hung on the fourteenth OF October next.
Internal revenue reports show
great increase in Government receipts, al
though prohibition has restricted the sale
of beer and liquor stamps in some States.
The revenues of last month amount
to over $32, 100000, and the expenditures
during the same time, including $11 SOC, 600
paid for pensions, amount to about $25, $780,
600,
J. W. McGarigle, one of the Chicago
bo0dIers, escaped from the custody of the
sheriff of Cook county. 1t Is thought he
was kidnapped. His bondsmen will be out
soO, 900.
Recent Canadian laws will virtually
prohibit the expectation Of horses, cattle
and swine from the United States into
Manitoba and British Columbia except for
breeding purposes.
The rumor of the death of Stanley,
the African explorer, has proved to be I'm.
true. He is known to have left Aruwimi
July3 for Wadell, the headquarters of
Emin Bey. July 8 is long time after the
date Of his reported death.
M. Laur, author of the Boulanger
letter trouble, promises to make public the
names Of eighty-four generals who are al
legged to have pledged their support to Gen
AraI Pnr1o Oor in, a en,,p OTTO of hts